The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Author | : Saint John (Climacus) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Spiritual life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Saint John (Climacus) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Spiritual life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Chryssavgis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351925210 |
John Chryssavgis explores the ascetic teaching and theology of St John Climacus, a classical and formative writer of the Christian medieval East, and the author of the seventh-century Ladder of Divine Ascent. This text proved to be the most widely used handbook of the spiritual life in the Christian East, partly because of its unique and striking symbol of the ladder that binds together the whole book. It has caught the attention of numerous readers in East and West alike through the ages and is a veritable classic of medieval spirituality, whose popularity in the East equals that of The Imitation of Christ in the West. Chryssavgis follows the development and influence of earlier desert literature, from Egypt through Palestine into Sinai, and includes a discussion of the theology of tears, the concept of unceasing prayer, as well as the monastic principles of hesychia (silence) and eros (love).
Author | : Saint John (Climacus) |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780809123308 |
John Climacus (c. 579-649) was abbot of the monastery of Catherine on Mount Sinai. His Ladder was the most widely used handbook of the ascetical life in the ancient Greek Church.
Author | : Vassilios Papavassiliou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 9781936270897 |
Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day.--
Author | : Norris J. Chumley |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451479913 |
Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike. Stories of hermits living in the desert in their pursuit of God catch our fancy. What motivated them and drew them to silence on their path to God? In this gracious tour through our tradition, Norris J. Chumley (Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer, HarperOne 2011) introduces us to Hesychasm, or silence and the lives of its early practicioners. Then, as only a teacher and mentor can, he opens up those important meanings for today.
Author | : Soren Kierkegaard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2013-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1625585918 |
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity; in short, it is a synthesis.
Author | : John Rupert Martin |
Publisher | : Princeton : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Evagrius Ponticus |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2022-12-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0879071923 |
The living link through whom the ascetic principles of hellenistic philosophers passed into monasticism, Evagrius molded christian asceticism through his own works and through his influence on John Cassian, Climacus, Pseudo 'Denis, and Saint Benedict.
Author | : Joseph Woodill |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Christian ethics |
ISBN | : 9780878403684 |
This book fills a vacuum in our understanding of the Eastern Church by revealing themes, persons, and insights that offer resources for a contemporary moral theology. Reviewing the Eastern tradition from patristic times to the present, Woodill shows its relevance to contemporary virtue ethics and identifies both differences and similarities between Orthodox and other - Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish - virtue ethics. Woodill's study centers on the fundamental elements of classical Greek ethics: telos, practice, virtue, community, narrative, and mentoring. He analyzes the ancient Greek fathers and the writings of modern Orthodox ethicists Stanley Harakas, Vigen Gurolan, and Christos Yannaras to show how those elements relate to the process of Christian transformation. He then demonstrates how the movement from creation to redemption contains an implicit virtue ethic.
Author | : Søren Kierkegaard |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
When Kierkegaard died at the age of forty-two, the papers found in his desk included Johannes Climacus, probably written in the winter of 1842-43. The book is a novel, as well as a work of philosophy, which tells the tale of what happens to the young Johannes Climacus as he decides to become a philosopher. At first in awe of the great thinkers, especially Hegel he sets out to follow their philosophical example by exploring the maxim 'Everything must be doubted'. The more he examines this idea, however, the more he realises how deluded his philosophical heroes are. No human life - not even a philosopher's - could ever fit into the orderly paragraphs and chapters of systematic philosophy and Hegel was, therefore, like a man who builds an enormous castle but lives in a shack nearby. Republished here in a revised translation, Johannes Climacus demonstrates that philosophy can be humorous and entertaining as well as conceptually rigorous. With its extraordinary combination of literary finesse and sharp philosophical wit, it serves as an excellent introduction to a thinker whose stylistic and philosophical talents make even Nietzsche seem tame.